Over Winter Carnival, students broke out the rainboots to slosh through brown puddles on the Green. Three months later, not much has changed. Our much-anticipated weekend of alcohol-saturated fun in the sun will probably be more like alcohol-saturated fun under a tent.
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Model and Internet celebrity Jenn Sterger will make an appearance at Psi Upsilon fraternity this Saturday as part of a programming event to raise money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
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Whereas Homecoming and Winter Carnival weekends feature nighttime parties as their social staple, Green Key plays host to elaborate outdoor festivities on Friday and Saturday afternoons. Phi Delta Alpha fraternity’s traditional block party and Alpha Delta fraternity’s lawn party regularly draw thousands of students and community members.
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Students may be looking forward to cutting loose and enjoying some springtime revelry this weekend, but the Green Key weekends of the past were even more prone to “Animal House”-esque behaviors, according to some College faculty and staff.
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While the history of Green Key weekend and its namesake organization go hand in hand, the Green Key Society currently plays a minor role in the weekend of traditions and debauchery.
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With no bonfire, polar bear swim or drunken rafting, Green Key weekend, marked more by outdoor bands and parties, presents fewer legal liabilities and “town-gown” tension than do Dartmouth’s other raucous weekends.
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While everything about Green Key is quintessentially Dartmouth, the Big Green is not the only college with a distinct spring festival. At schools across the nation, study-weary students eagerly anticipate fun and frivolity in the brightening spring weather.
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In the era before coeducation, Dartmouth men’s reputation for drinking and debauchery was widespread,. During big weekends like Green Key, when the campus was flooded with alumni and, more importantly, females, the men of Dartmouth were given the opportunity to either disprove or perpetuate this reputation. The direction they opted for is up for debate, according to some alumni and past Green Key attendees.
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Since the dawn of time, human civilizations have welcomed the transition from the cold winter to the fertile spring with various festivals, usually involving celebrations of the most bacchanalian and hedonistic aspects of life.
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The third-annual Festival of Humanity this Saturday will provide the Dartmouth community and the Upper Valley with a day of family fun, great music and free barbecue in the name of a noble cause.
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The Dartmouth Cords will celebrate its 10th anniversary with a reunion show entitled “10 years of cool pants and music” at 8 p.m. this Saturday at the Top of the Hop. The event will feature the debut of a new song as well as a “mockumentary” behind-the-scenes video.
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While the face of Dartmouth may have changed over the years, Green Key is still the same as it has always been — a weekend for good music, spring weather and true Animal House-style fun.
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Though students will flood Greek houses this weekend for Green Key festivities, many members of the Dartmouth community await a special Greek performance outside of fraternity house walls: the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. Step Show. Continuing in the celebration of Alpha Phi Alpha centennial, the show will be in Leede Arena this Saturday at 7:30 p.m., and promises to be bigger and more explosive than those of past years.
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Hundreds of students will no doubt flock to the block party on Webster Avenue or the lawn party at Alpha Delta fraternity this weekend, but if sipping beers and listening to sweet music on a (most likely wet) lawn is not really your thing, there are plenty of non-Greek events planned for this year’s Green Key.
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The AIDS Workcrew, a Dartmouth AIDS awareness organization that is part of the Tucker Foundation, will hold a commemorative event this Sunday as part of the Global Health Council’s 2006 International AIDS Candlelight Memorial.
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After years of debate, Dartmouth’s alumni “senate” will vote this Green Key Weekend on a proposed overhaul of the alumni government.
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